If I could make a wish for any youth minister, it would be this… I wish for you to have a great eulogy.

A few years back, Robert Feduccia of OCP’s Spirit and Song led a youth ministers’ retreat for ArchBalt and invited all the participants to consider their own eulogies. If you think an eulogy that celebrates your youth ministry program successes makes for a great send-off, you’d be mistaken.

Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz and A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, recently offered the eulogy for David Gentiles, his youth pastor.  In Donald’s eulogy, he says, “I learned more about Jesus from David than any other person I know.” Now, that’s a great eulogy for any youth minister.

Read the whole thing and hope to live that sort of life.  Rest in Christ’s peace, David Gentiles.